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- Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences. Offering nuanced portraits of women’s lives inside razor wire and prison walls, Razor Wire Women puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. Women make up the fastest-growing group of the U.S. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the distinct experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including those of girls in prison, abuse and rape, the policing of women, incarcerated motherhood, mental health issues in prisons, incarcerated women’s artistic and cultural production, and prisons’ impact on families, health, and sexuality. Combining the transcendence, hope and clarity of art with powerful analytical and conceptual tools, Razor Wire Women reveals the gendered dimensions of the incarceration now experienced by a growing number of women in the U.S.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations, Charts, Tables
- pp. xi-xiii
- Ruth Snyder
- pp. xx-xxi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xxiii
- Section I: Girls, Women, and Families
- Historical Contextualization
- pp. 23-26
- Chapter Two: The Voice of Silence
- pp. 27-29
- Section II: Sexuality, Health, and Abuse
- Historical Contextualization
- pp. 105-108
- Chapter Nine: The Prison Mentality
- pp. 109-114
- Chapter Eleven: Patiently Waiting
- pp. 133-143
- Caged Innocence
- pp. 144-145
- Chapter Thirteen: Prison Rape
- pp. 165-168
- Section III: Education, Writing, and the Arts
- Caught up on the Whirlwind
- pp. 190-191
- Chapter Seventeen: Desiree
- pp. 225-228
- List of Contributors
- pp. 305-315
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438435336
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
733048127
Pages
359
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No